Corporate Partners

Anheuser-Busch / Budweiser

Now in its 15th year of supporting NFWF, Anheuser-Busch has helped to enable wildlife habitat restoration, improve public access, educate future leaders in conservation, and conserve the nation’s outdoor heritage. One program, “Help Budweiser Help the Outdoors,” has generated over $8.7 million since inception to support important conservation efforts throughout the United States and Canada including projects that help protect critical waterfowl breeding habitat in North and South Dakota, restore important quail habitat in California and the Southeastern and Southwestern US, improve deer management practices in several eastern states, and restore important wintering habitat for elk in the Rocky Mountains.

ArcelorMittal

ArcelorMittal has committed $2.1 million over three years to sponsor the ArcelorMittal Great Lakes Watershed Restoration Program. The program helps restore the ecological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin by supporting collaborative approaches to restoration of wetlands and other critical fish and wildlife habitat. The Great Lakes Basin includes parts of the States of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario.

Bank of America

Bank of America offers a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation branded credit card. Every purchase made with this card helps NFWF to carry out our mission of sustaining, restoring, and enhancing the nation’s fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Bass Pro Shops

Bass Pro Shops and Johnny Morris Foundation have committed $5 million over five years to launch the More Fish Campaign that helps support fish habitat protection, enhancement, and restoration projects nationally, with particular emphasis on engaging agencies, anglers, and other conservation groups at Table Rock Lake and the White River watershed in Arkansas and Missouri to improve fish habitat and water quality.

Bed Bath & Beyond

In 2008 Bed Bath & Beyond began a partnership with NFWF where $1 from the sale of reusable shopping bags is donated to NFWF to support marine and coastal programs across the country, from restoring water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound to protecting sea turtles and seabirds from harmful marine debris.

BP

For more than seven years, BP Alaska has partnered with NFWF and provided support for vital research on Beaufort Sea polar bear populations in Alaska and Canada to determine their distribution, use of sea ice, den locations, impacts from noise, and population numbers. BP has also helped to establish the Alaska Sea Duck Fund to monitor imperiled sea duck populations, with an emphasis on the eiders. In 2008, BP contributed to the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Fund.

Chevron

In 2008, Chevron Alaska helped to support the development of non-invasive photo-identification techniques of the Cook Inlet beluga whales in order to identify individuals and get a more accurate population estimate. Since the Cook Inlet beluga whales were listed as endangered species in fall 2008, this program is vital to NOAA and other partners to help develop recovery plans for the species.

ConocoPhillips

ConocoPhillips and NFWF have worked together for more than 17 years. Our most recent partnership, the ConocoPhillips SPIRIT of Conservation Migratory Bird Program, was launched in 2005 and is a focused and strategic initiative to conserve threatened birds and their habitats around the world. Over the past four years, the SPIRIT program has provided funding for 23 projects in seven states and five countries. More than 55,000 acres of priority bird habitats have been protected or enhanced as a result of these awards. In addition, ConocoPhillips in Alaska has partnered with NFWF for the past six years to support polar bear research and Cook Inlet beluga whale conservation projects.

Covanta Energy

Covanta Energy, a waste-to-energy company, is a key partner in the Fishing for Energy program. Along with NOAA, NFWF launched this new program in 2008 to work closely with the fishing industry to assist in the disposal of old or unusable gear and to address the growing issue of derelict fishing gear in our nation’s coastal waterways. Through this program, fishermen from ports selected by NOAA experts are able to dispose of gear free of charge in dedicated collection bins. Covanta collects, processes, and converts the gear to create energy which is fed back out to the very communities from which the gear came. In 2008 the partnership collected and disposed of over 122 tons of fishing gear from 10 ports in the Northeast United States. Each ton of non-metal debris produces enough electricity to power one home for 25 days.

DuPont

In 2007, DuPont became a partner in NFWF’s Delaware Estuary Watershed Program under its own funding and technical assistance program Clear into the Future: A DuPont Delaware Estuary Initiative. DuPont works with the community to preserve and enhance the beauty and integrity of the Delaware Estuary for generations to come. NFWF’s Delaware Estuary program provides support to organizations working on a local level to protect and improve watersheds in the estuary, while building citizen-based resource stewardship. Now in its sixth year, the program has awarded 134 grants, providing over $3.8 million in federal and private funds that were leveraged with an additional $11 million in matching funds raised by grantees. 

ExxonMobil

For more than a decade, ExxonMobil has invested in the Save The Tiger Fund’s vision for tiger conservation. It is one of the largest corporate commitments ever to save an endangered species. The Fundhas taken a multifaceted approach to tiger conservation that serves as an umbrella for the preservation of habitat and biodiversity. This partnership supports field studies to develop better tiger management plans, tiger conservation education programs, efforts to curtail poaching and illegal trade of tiger parts, efforts to resolve human-tiger conflicts, and activities that protect and restore tiger habitats.

Marathon Oil

in 2008, Marathon and NFWF partnered to provide key funding to complete the removal of invasive tamarisk trees along 40 miles of the San Miguel River-one of the last remaining free-flowing rivers in the West. The project, which began in 2001, is the first major watershed control effort of its kind. It is focused within the San Miguel headwaters to the confluence with the Dolores River, a distance of more than 120 miles, covering 1,400 acres of land in Colorado's San Miguel and Montrose Counties.

The Orvis Company

Since 1987, Orvis and NFWF have partnered to protect and restore native fish and wildlife habitat by raising public awareness and engaging communities in stewardship activities. The Orvis Partnership Program supports projects dedicated to the acquisition, restoration, enhancement, or long-term protection of native fish and wildlife habitat.

PG&E Corporation

Since 1999, PG&E has partnered with NFWF on the Nature Restoration Trust: Empowering Communities program that supports habitat restoration within PG&E’s service districts in California. PG&E and NFWF facilitate conservation at the local level by empowering communities to take care of native habitats and species and engaging youth in hands-on restoration.

Shell Oil Company

Since 1998, the Shell Marine Habitat Program, a partnership between NFWF and the Shell Oil Company, has supported conservation projects that benefit marine and coastal habitats and species in the Gulf of Mexico and, more recently, Long Island Sound and Alaska. Through this partnership, 167 grants have helped more than 100 organizations conserve and restore marine habitat and more than $40 million in grants and matching funds has been put to work for marine conservation. The Shell Marine Habitat Program has played a critical role in the conservation of the endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, which is now recovering along the Texas coast. Shell also helped NFWF establish the Shell Polar Bear Fund to assist with population research on the north slope of Alaska.

Southern Company

Southern Company has been a partner of NFWF’s since 2002 with the launch of the Power of Flight Bird Conservation Fund, which protects birds through habitat and species restoration and environmental education. More than 134,000 acres of wildlife habitat have benefitted from the program.In 2004, NFWF and Southern Company embarked on another partnership, the Longleaf Legacy Program, which helps to restore and conserve the longleaf pine ecosystem and sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide. Through this program, more than 29,000 acres will be planted with 8 million seedlings. In 2006, Southern Company signed on for a third program with NFWF by becoming the first corporate partner in the Five Star Restoration Grant Program that supports community-based wetland, riparian, and coastal habitat restoration. Southern Company has supported projects that collectively restored more than 10,200 acres of wetland and coastal habitat, and close to 46,000 feet of riparian buffer. All programs are implemented within the Southern Company service area of Georgia, Alabama, northwestern Florida, and southeastern Mississippi.

United States Golf Association

Wildlife Links—a partnership between the United States Golf Association and NFWF begun in 1996—provides grants for cutting-edge research, management, and education projects that improve golf courses as habitat for wildlife, while also enhancing playing conditions for golfers. To date, this unique partnership has focused on creating habitats on golf courses for native pollinators, aquatic invertebrates, amphibians, small mammals, and birds. The program’s goal is to help make golf courses a meaningful part of the conservation landscape. Through 2008, 31 projects have been funded and nearly $2 million has been invested by USGA and NFWF in making golf courses better habitats for wildlife.

Wal-Mart

Acres for America was created in 2005 as a novel way for the corporate world and the conservation community to work cooperatively to conserve vital wildlife habitat for future generations. Wal-Mart launched the program with a commitment of $35 million over 10 years to permanently conserve at least one acre of priority wildlife habitat for every acre developed for the company’s facilities. After four years, the partnership has already surpassed Wal-Mart’s goal by conserving three times the amount of acreage originally planned; 13 projects have been funded in 13 states and Wal-Mart’s funds have helped to permanently conserve more than 412,000 acres of habitat. Wal-Mart is the first major retail store to offset its land development footprint with permanently protected conservation lands.